Get Your Grump on Thursdays - Was (What's chapping my @ss today?)

[davids]

Sid Selvidge, Memphis guitarist and founding member of Big Star, has passed.

bummer.

[Jaq]

Effing helmet nazis.

Occasionally I climb long hills on warm days with my helmet clipped to my stem. The next cat who screeches "helmet!" at me as he buzzes down the other side is going to find my helmet so far up his backside that the only man who can pull it out will be rightwise born King of all England.

[airedale]

2 year old molars and the associated 2 am morning sleepy drives.

[nrs5000]

Being micromanaged.

[Saab2000]

Losing a good friend in a car accident Tuesday morning. A fellow pilot who just made captain at my company about 3 months ago. 32 years young. We had flown together many times and he wasn't just a colleague but also a good friend.

That's my grump and makes my other whiny grumps seem kind of trivial.

[WadePatton]

Finally "met" the owner of a local grocery store. Well i didn't meet him properly, but saw him treating one of his long-term employees like shit.

I can't stand that. Didn't know folks were still doing biz like that. The adversarial model is not how you grow and thrive these days yo.

So now i know why that place has always sucked a little. Well, fuck him. I'm not giving that store any more money. I'll drive to the next town, it's only 12 miles further. And i'll tell him why--the fucker.

I nearly put my groceries down and walked out, but had a time limit to get suppa cookin', and my day had already been a bit shitty.

[Matthew Strongin]

Shit, Saab. My condolences. That's well beyond grump worthy and makes anything on my mind right now completely trivial. Really sorry for your loss.

[Philster]

I saw this and thought of this thread. Obviously doesn't apply to those who have had a serious loss:

http://www.acomplaintfreeworld.org/

[Dave]

Sorry to beat a dead horse, but I am sick of politics! Not as in Republican and Democrat, but playing the "politics" in the work place. I see ass kissers w/o any skills constantly rewarded as they suck up to our principal. Teachers who complain and bitch about difficult kids, parents, and the like constantly rewared with cake classes...while teachers who keep their mouths shut, work their ass off, take it on the chin from self entitled familes get hosed when it comes to opportunites and less troublesome students. I knwo that is how things work and yeah it is a pussy complaint, but 12 years of this shit is taking its toll.

Yeah I will drop and push the floor down.

Not to mention the parent who bitches on FB, Twitter, or any other social media about the amount of homework their kid has and how it is cutting into his sports practices and games...while living across the street from me. I so badly want to walk over grab her Susan Powter's bleached haricut and remind her that her son needs to spend less time in sports and more time with his nose in a book. I can show her all sorts of statistices on him if she is into that!

Fuck now I am pissy. time to start a new thread on education.

[Dallas Tex]

The fact that Campy doesn't take a cue from Harley Davidson and copy itself and release retro group. Something like a polished aluminum chorus level group. No carbon, all metal.

[Saab2000]

The fact that Campy doesn't take a cue from Harley Davidson and copy itself and release retro group. Something like a polished aluminum chorus level group. No carbon, all metal.

Harley is dying a slow and painful death by not being able to look forward. Their riders (customers) are dying. Porsche gave up the air-cooled engine tradition to much gnashing of teeth but they're more successful now and still making übercool product, at least with the Cayman and 911 models (their truck and sedan piss me off...).

My rant of the day is two-fold.

1. A new rule has been implemented at my base airport (DCA, for now) which prevents us from walking on the ramp to our airplanes with very little thought given to how we are actually supposed to access them. Who thinks this shit up? Office bureaucrats who have never done the work they supervise, that's who. It's a distance of about 150 feet. Zero thought went into the design of the airport airplane parking. But the geniuses will get their bonuses. Keep 'em flowing!

2. The controllers last night who wouldn't 'turn the ship' around and let us land on RWY 1 in DCA with ceilings dropping, making us do a difficult non-precision approach to mins to RWY 19. We weren't the only ones requesting a change in the runway configuration, it is 1 AM, we've been on duty for 13 hours and the cherry on the sundae would be the shitty vectors high and across the localizer. Shoulda gone around but with fuel planning the way it is that adds another element of stress to the equation. And the alternate was 200 and 1/2. Potomac approach was not on their A game last night. More like their D- game. It's a good thing the former mayor of Charlotte, NC is going to be the new head of the department of transportation. He's qualified how?

I think I'll install a Veloflex tubular and savor that experience now.

[christian]

Harley is dying a slow and painful death by not being able to look forward.

Harley shipped ~265,000 motorcycles in 2012 and have arguably the strongest brand in the world. Oh, and I'm 37 and would like a FXLD Switchback. I think they'll be ok.

I have a cold. That's my only grump.

[zetroc]

Today my grump is infestations. There are ants all over the break room at work and fruit flies or gnats are everywhere. The floor around every trash can looks like someone coughed up their Cinnamon Challenge.

[znfdl]

For what is chapping my ass today; there are to many numerous items that I do not know where to start, so I am not going to start.

[Dallas Tex]

Harley shipped ~265,000 motorcycles in 2012 and have arguably the strongest brand in the world. Oh, and I'm 37 and would like a FXLD Switchback. I think they'll be ok.
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I'll add that the V-Rod twin engine has been water-cooled since its introduction in 2008. HD is a great company and the stock is great performing and at 5 year highs.

[ElvisMerckx]

The Washington Capitals. Why am I a fan? Why?

[cody.wms]

There are two strangers that work on the same floor as me and try to chat with me while I'm using the urinal. It's not the time to talk to people you don't know, OK????

[cody.wms]

The Washington Capitals. Why am I a fan? Why?

Let's not get started on the Wiz. Whoever they draft, they'll just ruin him.

[marley]

There are two strangers that work on the same floor as me and try to chat with me while I'm using the urinal. It's not the time to talk to people you don't know, OK????

There are only two people in the world you should be speaking with when holding your own junk - your significant other and yourself.

[rphetteplace]

There are only two people in the world you should be speaking with when holding your own junk - your significant other and yourself.

sometimes I like to talk to my junk though......